Fire dynamics simulator (version 4.0) simulation for tunnel fire scenarios with forced, transient, longitudinal ventilation flows

Fire Technology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 137-166

  Kim, Esther ^a   Woycheese, John P ^a   Dembsey, Nicholas A ^a  

^a Worcester Polytechnic Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Back flow; Back layering; CFD; FDS; Longitudinal ventilation; Model evaluation; Transient flow; Tunnel fire

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FLAME RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VENTILATION;

FIRE DYNAMICS SIMULATOR; TIME-VARYING LONGITUDINAL VENTILATION;

FIRES;

COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS; FIRES; FLAME RESEARCH; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TURBULENCE; VENTILATION;

EID: 42349102164     PISSN: 00152684     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10694-007-0028-2     Document Type: Article

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